NEW HELICOPTER GUNSHIP UNVEILED.

Publication: Monitor Volume: 2 Issue: 218

November 20, 1996 08:00 AM Age: 28 years

The Ka-52 "Alligator" was unveiled by the Kamov helicopter design bureau yesterday. It is a two-seat version of the Ka-50 "Black Shark" that incorporates some Western avionics. Kamov hopes to sell it to the Russian ground and air forces and to market it abroad. It will be built at the Arsenyev plant in Primorye. Arsenyev has had little success in getting the Russian military to buy the Ka-50. (Interfax, November 19)

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